Spatial and temporal variations of urban litter in Mar del Plata, the major coastal city of Argentina

Pon, Juan Pablo Seco; Becherucci, María Eugenia

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2011.10.012

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“…On land littering is an important environmental and public issue [47,48] and is a matter of increasing concern in protected areas where volumes are influenced by visitor density; consequently, measures are now needed to reduce and mitigate for damage to the environment [49]. In addition, waste management practices in different regions of the world also vary, and this may be a more important source in one geographical region compared to another [8].…”

Section: Sources Of Plastics and Microplastics Into The Freshwater Enmentioning

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Microplastics Are Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Freshwater Environments: An Overview

Lambert

Wagner

2017

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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In recent years, interest in the environmental occurrence and effects of microplastics (MPs) has shifted towards our inland waters, and in this chapter we provide an overview of the issues that may be of concern for freshwater environments. The term 'contaminant of emerging concern' does not only apply to chemical pollutants but to MPs as well because it has been detected ubiquitously in freshwater systems. The environmental release of MPs will occur from a wide variety of sources, including emissions from wastewater treatment plants and from the degradation of larger plastic debris items. Due to the chemical makeup of plastic materials, receiving environments are potentially exposed to a mixture of microand nano-sized particles, leached additives, and subsequent degradation products, which will become bioavailable for a range of biota. The ingestion of MPs by aquatic organisms has been demonstrated, but the long-term effects of continuous exposures are less well understood. Technological developments and changes in demographics will influence the types of MPs and environmental concentrations in the future, and it will be important to develop approaches to mitigate the input of synthetic polymers to freshwater ecosystems.

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Section: Sources Of Plastics and Microplastics Into The Freshwater Enmentioning

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Microplastics Are Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Freshwater Environments: An Overview

Lambert

Wagner

2017

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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137

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“…The study of AL ecology is a rapidly emerging field which spans ecosystem types (Ryan ), and will benefit from adaptation of tools used in community ecology to facilitate comparisons of AL assemblages (i.e., “communities”) among locations. A persistent obstacle toward this objective is that the field is lacking a shared taxonomic scheme to characterize AL assemblages, and thereby use metrics such as AL richness, diversity, multivariate statistics, and ordination (Seco Pon and Becherucci ; Pham et al ; Rech et al ). Classification protocols are idiosyncratic to study sites or ecosystems, and can be based on material type (e.g., plastic, rubber, paper), function (e.g., fishing‐related, domestic, or construction), or item purpose (e.g., cutlery, lighter, fishing line).…”

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Anthropogenic litter is abundant, diverse, and mobile in urban rivers: Insights from cross-ecosystem analyses using ecosystem and community ecology tools

McCormick

Hoellein

2016

Limnol. Oceanogr.

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Anthropogenic litter (AL; trash) in the environment is increasing and persistent. Rivers are considered a major source of AL to oceans, but AL ecology within rivers is rarely examined. Also, the rapidly developing field of AL research will benefit from fundamental approaches in community and ecosystem ecology. We adapted methods for communities of organisms and movement of organic matter to measure density, mass, assemblages, sources, and flux of AL in riparian and benthic zones at 15 sites in five rivers. We compared riverine AL density, mass, and assemblages to marine habitats worldwide. Benthic zones had greater AL mass and a different assemblage than riparian zones. Reach‐scale metrics of human activity (e.g., parking spaces) explained more variation in AL assemblages than total urban land use. AL export was driven by material type and hydrology, and turnover time was ≤ 1 yr. Riparian AL density was similar to beaches, but benthic AL density was higher than marine benthic habitats. Finally, AL assemblages in river benthic and riparian zones were similar to assemblages at beaches rather than marine benthic habitats. AL is abundant and mobile in rivers, which show dynamic periods of AL retention and export. Rivers are likely sites of AL breakdown and burial, with significant biotic interactions which have not yet been studied. Comprehensive assessments of AL across ecosystems require continued adaptation of fundamental ecosystem and community ecology tools. Results will integrate riverine AL dynamics with the growing field of marine AL ecology, and inform management of global AL accumulations.

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“…In coastal cities, environmental features such as mangroves, estuaries, beaches and bays, coupled with population growth, tourism and pressure from commercial projects such as ports, harbors and offshore oil and gas exploration makes difficult solid waste management, already compromised by the lack of planning and basic sanitation infrastructures that is prevalent in developing countries (Jiang et al, 2001;Li, 2003). In the coastal zone, this situation leads to the proliferation of marine litter (Seco Pon & Becherucci, 2012), defined as any manufactured or solid waste from human activities that enters the marine environment, regardless of the source (land-based or marine-based), but excluding organic matter (e.g. food and plant waste) (Cheshire et al, 2009).…”

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Solid waste management in coastal cities: where are the gaps? Case study of the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil

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Turra²

2015

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Coastal cities are surrounded by important but fragile ecosystems that are under pressure from population growth, tourism and large commercial enterprises. These factors contribute to a complex solid waste management situation, which is exacerbated by lack of planning and sanitation infrastructure, common factors in cities in developing countries. The municipalities of the North Coast of São Paulo State were used as study cases to analyze public policies for solid waste management in the coastal zone, with wide seasonal variations in population and solid waste production. The analysis included planning, implementation, performance indicators and future prospects. The results revealed that some key issues that are critical to the development and improvement of solid waste management in these cities must be considered: (1) the main focus of the plans and future prospects is landfills; (2) only a few of the outputs and outcome indicators are related to MSW; (3) recycling is not well implemented; and (4) no indicators of the amount of waste recycled are established. Solid waste management in these municipalities should be strategically reframed in order to adopt more-sustainable alternatives for waste treatment, with outputs and outcome indicators to evaluate policy implementation. In addition, citizen (residents and tourists) should be encouraged in monitoring and implementing these policies.

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Spatial and temporal variations of urban litter in Mar del Plata, the major coastal city of Argentina

Cited by 72 publications

References 25 publications

Microplastics Are Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Freshwater Environments: An Overview

Microplastics Are Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Freshwater Environments: An Overview

Anthropogenic litter is abundant, diverse, and mobile in urban rivers: Insights from cross-ecosystem analyses using ecosystem and community ecology tools

Solid waste management in coastal cities: where are the gaps? Case study of the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil

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